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2016 Ballard County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ballard County, KY went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 6,644 customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 1510th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ballard County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 6, 2016 18:30 | July 9, 2016 06:00 | 2d 11h | 443 | 6,026 |
| 2 | July 18, 2016 21:45 | July 18, 2016 23:45 | 2h | 62 | 75 |
| 3 | May 27, 2016 07:30 | May 27, 2016 10:15 | 2h 45m | 58 | 145 |
| 4 | July 3, 2016 22:45 | July 4, 2016 00:00 | 1h 15m | 40 | 33 |
| 5 | December 17, 2016 23:00 | December 18, 2016 02:15 | 3h 15m | 40 | 81 |
| 6 | November 10, 2016 23:15 | November 11, 2016 00:30 | 1h 15m | 17 | 21 |
| 7 | August 24, 2016 22:30 | August 25, 2016 00:00 | 1h 30m | 14 | 21 |
| 8 | May 28, 2016 13:15 | May 28, 2016 13:45 | 30m | 13 | 7 |
| 9 | January 10, 2016 04:00 | January 10, 2016 07:30 | 3h 30m | 12 | 30 |
| 10 | August 1, 2016 19:30 | August 1, 2016 20:15 | 45m | 10 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Ballard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.35 | 2.0 hrs | 1.13 |
| Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation | 2016 | 5.6 hrs | 1.30 | 66 min | 0.68 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Kentucky's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,230 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Ballard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ballard County, KY annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/kentucky/ballard-county